Dragon Age: The Veilguard - A woke disaster? Yep!

[BoomerSperg1922]

hey didnt even sell 1.5 million, they say they "engaged 1.5 million players", thats corpo speak, they probably included demo players, refunds and game pass subcriptions in that number.

Exactly.

If they don't outright state it was 1.5 million sales, then they are vastly inflating the number in order to try (and fail) at implying it.

 

[frame777]

EA is a parasite on gaming.

 

[The Bogwater Rises]

Oh shit, missed the news earlier. This is great. Dragon Age Origins is one of my favorite games ever. I had a character for almost every origin and beat it with three characters. It's the game that taught me builds matter because I just put stats all over the place my first run and got cockblocked from completing when it came to the Loghaine duel. Out of all my party only my dog stood a chance and it was still slim.

I was "tricked" into liking 2. I let my hype blind me for a run but realized it wasn't that fucking good early in my second run. I do remember really liking its char creator tho for some reason. Tried Inquisition but the damage was done, so I never finished it. What I've heard from others makes me think I'd fucking hate it in the end.

Didn't even know Veilguard was a thing and then I saw it. It looked awful. Glad it failed. I spit on modern Bioware.

 

[frozen_runner]

The sad thing is, the wokesters still won. Sure, the only thing they're good at is infiltrating companies and spreading the toe fungus that is their ideology, but nobody had the ability to stop them. Conservatives sat on their thumbs and let them take over. Why can't we infiltrate and take over things, too? Why can't we take Star Wars back and turn it into "The Adventures of MAGA Chad McBigCock, Galactic PedoHunter"?

Because the only people motivated enough to do so will just make everything about Jesus.

 

[Edict of Expulsion]

If bioware doesnt shut down after this catastrophe of a shitshow i dont know what will. its literally their third flop in a row. And each one is worse than the last, i dont know how it can get worse, but im sure mass effect 5 will be somehow even more garbage

if kathleen kennedy can continue to girlboss her way into cringe sheboons and lesbians and burn billions and destroy multi-billion dollar franchises, the ESG from pension funds from retarded woke states like jew york and commiefornia will continue to force DEI until companies get hostile takeovers.

 

[Weapons Grade Autism]

Like I said, it was playable. Don't know how the fuck that translates in your mind to determining it must be one of my favorites or something(honestly that probably would go to BF3 anyway).

Probably misunderstood, sorry fren. I agree that BF3 is head and shoulders above the rest of the games in the series.
As someone who played BF3 for a decade. I had friends in 2013-2015 complain about 4 whenever there was a party/VC. DAILY.
I did not like 4 from the Beta, eventually got it for cheap 6+ years after release because I wanted to give it a chance and branch from 3; still did not like it.

 

[Factual OST Aficionado]

>Pull a Bharv
>Destroy beloved franchise
>Get fired
>47%

 

[Niggernerd]

The only good EA games i played were Command & Conquer Generals/C&C Zero Hour

 

[AnOminous]

Lots and lots of games will have the EA logo attached for publishing reasons, but EA isn't Nintendo. They don't really make games, they just buy pre-existing games.

EA is the cordyceps fungus of games. It needs to be eliminated.

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

if kathleen kennedy can continue to girlboss her way into cringe sheboons and lesbians and burn billions and destroy multi-billion dollar franchises, the ESG from pension funds from retarded woke states like jew york and commiefornia will continue to force DEI until companies get hostile takeovers

Companies like Disney, EA, Activision, Ubisoft - they are all too big to change.

To change, you need to restructure, downsize, streamline, replace, etc - but to do this, you have to deal with incompetent or unqualified people in upper management that will naturally not bow out into the sunset easily. You will need to pay out millions to get them out, and then you have to deal with an internal managerial vacuum that you need to fill.

You also have to deal with equally incompetent people beneath these upper management people that had been appointed to these high posts because of their asskissing skills and because they are not capable enough to be a threat to the top people.

You also have to restructure the company, deal with DEI hires that will throw lawsuits your way and scream to the media about your discriminatory ways (and get accused as a rapist or something for good measure).

And to even do a fraction of this, you need approval of the board members or stakeholders, most of them are either appointed by the people you want to kick out or just don't give a fuck as long as their check comes in.

That's why Kathleen Kennedy and Bob Iger won't be unseated. Trying to unseat them and change the company is like trying to organize the French Revolution but without popular support - too much work, low reward. It's easier to let the company flounder and fail until they eventually run out of money and have to sell to the Arabs or Chinese.

 

[Zetsubou]

The only downside of losing bioware would be losing the bioware store for hoodies but its not like i want to be seen in public in N7 merch these days and they arent exactly the old blizzard-proof quality they used to be. Let my boy rest.

 

[AnOminous]

Companies like Disney, EA, Activision, Ubisoft - they are all too big to change.

Except that's bullshit, unless you consider that they consider themselves "too big to cease to exist."

The history of trademarks shows there are plenty of companies that used to exist and no longer exist any more, because they were dumb.

IBM used to be the gods of technology. You'd never get fired if you bought IBM. They still exist but they're now down to below the top ten of tech companies. Because they didn't change.

And there are plenty of companies that used to be on the top of the world that most people currently alive wouldn't even recognize their names.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

Because they rake in billions of dollars in microtransations from their sports games.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/sports/soccer/ea-sports-fifa.html

https://archive.ph/ptW0j

Just the FIFA shit alone was making them over a billion dollars a year to the point where it averaged out to 1 billion a year for the past 2 decades, and FIFA was only getting 150 million a year for the name. Increasing it to 250 a year was what made EA pull the plug.

There's also NHL, College Football, F1, UFC, WRC, Madden, PGA, and all of those games are just loaded up with microtransactions just like the soccer games.

They should sell off all their non sports properties at this point and focus on the one thing that rakes in the cash.

 

[Haramburger]

It's been news for a little over a week, I'm glad to see something I personally do a little victory dance over get Featured because it validates the gator in me

Except that's bullshit, unless you consider that they consider themselves "too big to cease to exist."

The history of trademarks shows there are plenty of companies that used to exist and no longer exist any more, because they were dumb.

IBM used to be the gods of technology. You'd never get fired if you bought IBM. They still exist but they're now down to below the top ten of tech companies. Because they didn't change.

And there are plenty of companies that used to be on the top of the world that most people currently alive wouldn't even recognize their names.

This post is correct in all the right ways. Companies that don't change die, like Kodak. It's amazing that Kodak used to be the kings of cameras and innovated/enabled the trend to let people take instant pictures of themselves, their friends, their interests and quickly, cheaply share those pictures with them... basically the exact thing smartphone apps like Instagram. If Kodak of today could've read the room, they would've been the first to recognize the value of something like Instagram on the ground floor, instead they were merely the blueprint Facebok used to justify the billion dollar purchase to integrate it into their experience.

Waldenbooks & later the Borders that bought them innovated the computerization of inventory to analyze book shopper trends and mobilize inventory to the right locations at the right time. But why do that with online shoppers? Haha, let's just leave that to silly like garage boys like Amazon, no wa-

Examples like that are definitely what fuel the bean counters that allow or encourage a company like BioWare, who find great success telling dark fantasy and sci-fi stories with polish, to change into some sort of faggot libtard dating sim. Unfortunately they didn't watch Blizzard or other companies doing the same and see the harm in that particular direction.

Suits in general are bad at managing video game companies because they're outsiders who will never understand the market, the hit creators or what the real audience actually wants. It's usually best when the creators become the suits, like 90s Blizzard, but they became beholden to even bigger suits so that was a slow burn. The sheer amounts of money available make such gambles still worth it, combined with the low accountability for executives in corporate management by design.

Looping back to BioWare the loss of the doctors who founded it signaled the end. Zero creative soul left to steer the ship so a bunch of liberal retards swooped in thinking they were the next George Lucas, meanwhile all they're remember for are memes like Hamburger Hepler and STANREY WOO, EVERYONE BEROW THIS RINE IS BANNED
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Dragon Age 2 thru 4 should've been carbon copy games design and engine-wise with story continuation by the same writer, pay anything he said because I guarantee it was 100x less than what you've lost, then think about Dragon Age: Kart Racer or Mass Effect: Booba Gacha.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

EA is the cordyceps fungus of games. It needs to be eliminated.

EA is the serial killer of the gaming industry. It lured in unsuspecting studios with promises of big investments and bigger profits, only to bleed them dry and bury their corpses in a ditch.

 

[AnOminous]

EA is the serial killer of the gaming industry. It lured in unsuspecting studios with promises of big investments and bigger profits, only to bleed them dry and bury their corpses in a ditch.

It is the most evil corporation in gaming and always has been, and this well preceded wokeshit.

 

[Factual OST Aficionado]

EA is the cordyceps fungus of games. It needs to be eliminated.

mf's killed TimeSplitters. Absolutely unforgivable. SUFFAH.

 

[Cuckoman]

I haven't seen anyone post this here. EA officially stated in their press release that the game performed below 50% of approximated expectations. They hoped it would sell 3 million copies, but it sold 1.5 million. Bioware is most likely getting axed.
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Edit: I personally want to remind you that you don't hate videogame journos enough. Eat shit Jason Schreier, Dragon's crown is still kino.
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This is not correct. This is not 1.5M sales.
They are not talking about 1.5 million copies sold, they are talking about 1.5 million users engaged. Sales is likely a far smaller number.

Remember, after the launch this game almost immediately got bundled with NVidia graphics card, so if you bought a card you got the game for free,
Also for the entire duration of december you could download and use the fucking tranny character generator and show and share your abominations with other sex-offenders online.
These also count as "engagement"

So less than 1.5 million paying customers. Depending on how many nvidia sales happened and how many trannies decided to download the "top surgery scar simulator" character generator it could be anything from somwhat less than 1,5 million sales to far far less than 1.5 million sales.

Personally, I think the actual sales number after subtracting the "free game with nvidia", refunds and "troon simulator enjoyers" is definitely less than 1M sales.


Before the launch they were talking about ~10Million sales as a goal because this is kind of a big franchise.
The "3M target lifetime sales, dragon age games always have legs" was an adjustment they made after they saw how catastrophic the launch was.
They likely sole less than 10% of the initial target. The "50% of 3M" is a rewrite of history to make it look less bad.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

It is the most evil corporation in gaming and always has been, and this well preceded wokeshit.

Back then gamers were outraged over their greed, enshittification of the studios they bought and absolute dogshit game launches. Hell, they were even voted worst company in America twice in a row, beating out big names like Bank of America.

The culture war shit has distracted a lot of people from the real underlying rot in the AAA industry. SJWs are just one of many symptoms.

 

[Haramburger]

Remember, after the launch this game almost immediately got bundled with NVidia graphics card, so if you bought a card you got the game for free,

Half padding for the investor report, half preparing for DLC/expansion buyer base that never materialized. Probably a good idea overall, if they didn't let the main product be sunk by a tranny. NOT wasting money developing DLC was another good agile decision to cut losses imo.